2 Responses to The Original Girls Just Want to Have Fun

This article is the best exemplar I’ve seen of the huge difference that a change-of-perspective makes. The song’s original version isn’t nearly as good as Lauper’s, but the difference is much bigger than merely the quality; it’s even more in the gender-perspectives: the original being masculine, and the Lauper being feminine. Lauper was here redefining, for access by a mass audience, the feminist message, that male and female are two very different perspectives on the same reality.